BlockWarsaw Center, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crandall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Scurry quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Scurry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
89 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Warsaw Center between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,224 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 175 |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTIAL AID |
| 15 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CEDAR RIDGE |
| 14 September 2005 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TURKEY FARM |
| 8 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GASTONIA |
| 5 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1390 |
| 3 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122598740 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379239. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.